News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

Cook Food With A Solar Stovetop

The new off the grid global cooking style – Hot Liner Solar Cooker Stove – by Yonggu Do & Eunha SEO from Yanko Design can replace the old fashioned solar ovens, successfully. In 2010, at Seoul International Design Competition, co-hosted by Designboom, Hot Liner got the Golden Haechi Award because of its original concept, which [...]

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Plug-in electric hybrid Cars – Cost Efficient and Environmentally Friendly

New modern plug-in electric hybrid vehicles are similar to conventional cars such as Toyota Prius and Lexus. The only difference is the size of the batteries used in these modern cars. In addition, these batteries are more expensive. They have an advanced system which even allows re-charging to be done at a parking. This would [...]

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Electric Vehicles – Some Formulas For Charging Batteries

There is really progress going on in the field of electric engines. Electric engines are already four times better than internal combustion engines. The technology to bring pure plug-in electric vehicles to the road does already exist. The only restrain is the presence of efficient battery solutions; batteries allowing recharging to be done at an [...]

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The dream to go Green: Aran Islanders try out Electric Cars

The Aran Islands have been selected for trying out the electric car. It is located off the west coast of Ireland and is thought to be ideal for such tests. Aran Islands were thought to be the perfect site for such testing as there is much wind. Also the relentless waves drum up the energy. [...]

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Apple Might Soon Power Appliances with Solar Energy

Recently, Apple earned their patent for the technology enabling electronic gadget to be powered with the use of solar energy. Apply is going for solar portable devices. In 2009, Apple described how a particular system could charge portable devices with the use of solar panels. They do current hold a patent for the system which [...]

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Will NanoGenerators One Day Power Personal Electronics? Zong Lin Wang Confirms

When blinking numbers are displayed on an LCD, the common signal is the need for resetting. However, at the laboratory of Zong Lin Wang at Georgia Tech, the blinking indicates 5-years of successful research. Electronic devices are powered through nanoscale generators which produce mechanical energy directly from the environment via the use of tiny nano-wires. [...]

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NASA Going Green

Despite the fact that NASA has been knocked off its orbit recently, one of its most current activities never left the ground. However, it is yet leading the pack in innovation. An announcement has been made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration previously this week. According to it, its enormous 50,000 square-foot, two-story Sustainability [...]

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Global Fuel Cell Market on the Edge to Exceed $ 1 billion by 2014

Following a new study carried out by SBI Energy that indicates that the fuel cell technology is an emerging one and which could possibly reach over $1 billion by the year 2014, there has been a renewed interest on behalf of the renewable energy investors. According to the report, Fuel Cell Technologies, the market of [...]

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Motorcycles Powered by Compressed Air

The typical motorcycles used in the world of today, has an engine that burns gasoline. This source of power emits greenhouse gas and therefore, negatively contributes to environmental pollution. Two Scientists in India have found a ground-breakthrough. They have designed a cleaner motorcycle engine: an engine using compressed air to rotate a small air turbine. [...]

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New Sources of Renewable Energy; One Being Cow Power

This year’s Congressional Energy and Energy Efficiency Expo Forum in Washington DC that was held in the end of May did early pinpoint on the controversy of Fossil Fuel. They were mainly referring to the oil spill in the Gulf region (BP oil Spill). Rep. Jay Inslee of Washington State conveyed the message by saying [...]

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